This is a discussion on Spin & go within the online poker forums, in the Poker Rooms section; Played about 10 spin & go tournanents at ps, and every time it was for 2$!! How often does other prizes come??

I use them to top my BR up, I might play a few $3-$5 SnG and if I don't cash in them I play 1 or 2 and get my BR back to where it was before the losses, I may lose a couple and then hit a couple of 6x game and I'm back to where I was.

#6

23rd September 2015, 4:53 PM

colacho [64]

Poker at: pokerstars

Game: Holdem

I every time I played spin and go also were 2 dollars and 4 dollars and just one of 6 dollars .. but no more than that

#7

23rd September 2015, 7:47 PM

blobman [1,027]

Game: NLHE

re: Poker & Spin & go

The probability of spinning 10 $2 games in a row is about 4.6% ((73518/100000)^10), so albeit unlikely, you'll still hit such a streak about 1 out of every 20 sets of 10 games played.

#8

23rd September 2015, 8:59 PM

demibar [538]

Poker at: pokerstars

Game: holdem

that game spin and go doesnt worth at all i have play many times play for 1$ and the biggest price was 6$ but most of the time 2$ its wasting of time its sounds great when you see you can have a big price like 3,000 just playing once against 2 players but chances are so few to be that lucky

#9

24th September 2015, 9:33 AM

veltins [977]

Online Poker at: pokerstars

Game: both

it s rubbish .. dont know if anyone realy win anything from that . and who knows anyone close winning it ? may be just propoganda from sites by showing their own house players winning it. remember one thing pokersites makes a killing from any spin n goes

#10

27th September 2015, 12:08 AM

martymart48 [3,651]

Poker at: PokerStars

Game: Holdem

Just for Fun

Maybe is why i play Jackpot

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#11

30th September 2015, 10:04 PM

arborest [83]

Online Poker at: Pokerstars

Game: Holdem

Spin n Go is a waste of time. Its so small chance to win higher pots. Tried it 2 months and nothing.

As far as I understand it's logic, the first jackpot winner will occur when the game will earn enough money from players to "pay" this prize. It's like casino program set to do it usually. Programmers inside of company made it like this to not lose a single cent of course. So I recommend to wait some time, till money will accumulate. It means, it's not based on pure luck. Luck may occur only after some amount of time when enough money is in the pot.
:/

I once played for about 30 dollars with 3 buy in, and that's it...all prizes was lower and I played a lot of games.

#17

20th October 2015, 9:58 PM

PershingSt [575]

Online Poker at: Bovada

Game: holdem

Seems most games return the max of 10x the buyin , still an interesting concept to spice up SNG scene which has grown stale over the years .

#18

20th October 2015, 10:39 PM

Elmanchy [68]

Poker at: BC PS FTP FF

Game: holdem

Already played 50+ sng 3$
0 jackpots.

#19

21st October 2015, 5:12 PM

blobman [1,027]

Game: NLHE

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doh123

As far as I understand it's logic, the first jackpot winner will occur when the game will earn enough money from players to "pay" this prize. It's like casino program set to do it usually. Programmers inside of company made it like this to not lose a single cent of course. So I recommend to wait some time, till money will accumulate. It means, it's not based on pure luck. Luck may occur only after some amount of time when enough money is in the pot.
:/

false

#20

22nd October 2015, 1:18 AM

pain_pain_go_away [270]

Poker at: Old FullTilt

Game: PLOH/L, NLHE

As of about three hours ago, there is one more Spin'n'Go Millionaire after being made over on Pokerstars.... Unfortunately, it wasn't me!

#21

22nd October 2015, 9:10 AM

StArDemonn [417]

Online Poker at: Pokerstars

re: Poker & Spin & go

I don't like spin &go I played but nothing intersting....

#22

22nd October 2015, 9:53 AM

enolan [214]

Poker at: Pokerstars

Game: holdem

50c ticket, won $3. More than I expect so delighted.
I always try to play the S&Gs when there's a promo running. It's a very marginal return (if any) but I think there is great value in getting some short-handed practice in.

#23

24th October 2015, 11:54 AM

Lexxx [655]

Online Poker at: Pokerstars

Game: holdem

I asked ps to block my spin access! I was losing all my money tilting at those!

#24

24th October 2015, 1:03 PM

fubarcdn [2,445]

Poker at: Poker Stars

Game: NL Holdem

This is a great promotion for us nickel and dimers. Just deposit a minimum of $10 and get 5 spin and go tickets. That is a 25% bonus with no play through requirements.

Take note that over $3BILLION has been awarded so far. so if there take is 5% they have made $150million so far. It is a good business to be in.

#25

24th October 2015, 1:20 PM

10058765 [4,979]

Online Poker at: Pokerstars

Game: Mixed

Quote:

Originally Posted by enolan

50c ticket, won $3. More than I expect so delighted.
I always try to play the S&Gs when there's a promo running. It's a very marginal return (if any) but I think there is great value in getting some short-handed practice in.

agree...the first few I played I was like ......what am I doing here....
Then got a grasp of it and since, never played so much heads-up before.

Funny fact....I won one in 3 hands in less than a minute, while another one I had to play 18 minutes before taking it down

#26

24th October 2015, 3:35 PM

Doh123 [56]

Poker at: PokerStars

Game: holdem

Quote:

Originally Posted by blobman

false

Then I would like to read your opinion

#27

24th October 2015, 7:23 PM

blobman [1,027]

Game: NLHE

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doh123

Then I would like to read your opinion

The prize pool for each game is randomly determined according to the prize schedule independent of any other games. You are just as likely to spin a million in your first game as you are your thousandth. A month coul have 20 million spins or 0. It's just the probabilities. Recall from the fist time pokerstars did the golden spin & gos, I think there were three million dollar games spun in a pretty short window iirc, which is far more than probability would've predicted. But because each individual game is random, it's possible to have so many big buyin games in a short time period.

Basically what you said earlier is that the games are rigged to not pay out jackpots at first. That's a pretty big accisation. It would be very unethical and bad business too for pokerstars or any provider to rig their games like that. Perhaps such rigging is done with slots - I'm not familiar with those - but I strongly doubt that any casino of repute would rig their games in any manner, especially this one.

The key for pokerstars is that they have a big enough player pool playing these spin & gos such that they can afford to overlay at first since it'll even out in the long run. Even if 5 people spin a million in a single day, pokerstars will be able to pay. Sometimes when companies do big jackpot promotions, they get insurance from an outside company. I have no idea if that's what pokerstars does but they might, in which they actually should be rooting for people to spin a million because it would cost them nothing seeing as they've already bought insurance (like when a furniture store promises to refund all purchases from the last month if it snows a foot on Super Bowl Sunday, the store would've insured their promotion and therefore would actually be hoping it snows a foot on Super Bowl Sunday on account of the good publicity it would bring)

#28

24th October 2015, 8:12 PM

MASURON2KE [393]

Poker at: Pokerstars

re: Poker & Spin & go

I love to play spins but ofc most of the time is X2

#29

24th October 2015, 9:04 PM

Syltan [612]

Online Poker at: Pokerstars

Game: holdem

Played until 363 of the tournament for 0.50$, go to plus 10$ and more 3$ did not drop out(((

#30

24th October 2015, 9:11 PM

joe777 [2,716]

IMO this games is still beatable,but you'll need very large bankroll=300xbuy-in at least.Maybe along the way you could strike the big jack pot and can consider it as bonus.

#31

25th October 2015, 6:10 PM

Doh123 [56]

Online Poker at: PokerStars

Game: holdem

Quote:

Originally Posted by joe777

IMO this games is still beatable,but you'll need very large bankroll=300xbuy-in at least.Maybe along the way you could strike the big jack pot and can consider it as bonus.

But still I would like to read some good and meaningful profitable strategy. To keep me alive with bankroll untill I catch some big pot. Because from these games comes more points.